The 2006 National Film Board of Canada documentary, “Bombay Calling” takes you up close and personal with callers operating in a Mumbai call centre you really would prefer not to converse with and perhaps have hung up on in the past. Indian call centres selling legitimate products and services proliferated for some time in theContinue reading “RKS Throwback CANADIAN Documentary: “Bombay Calling”: Up Close and Personal with Those You’d Prefer to Hang Up On”
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RKS Throwback CANADIAN Documentary: “King of the Hill”: Ferguson Jenkins: Better with Age!
The 1974 National Film Board of Canada documentary “King of the Hill” showcases black Canadian professional baseball pitcher Ferguson Jenkins and a slice of baseball as it was in 1972/73 when he played for the Chicago Cubs. Who is Ferguson Jenkins you may ask? Born in Chatham, Ontario in 1942 just about says it allContinue reading “RKS Throwback CANADIAN Documentary: “King of the Hill”: Ferguson Jenkins: Better with Age!”
On April 16, the World Stands Up for Canada by Sitting Down to Watch a Great Canadian Film!
World’s biggest press release for the world’s biggest film festival TORONTO – April 1, 2025 – On April 16, National Canadian Film Day (CanFilmDay), will unite the nation in a massive, celebratory, elbows-up explosion of Canadian film. Returning for the twelfth year, CanFilmDay will present nearly 2,000 FREE screenings in every province and territory, and in moreContinue reading “On April 16, the World Stands Up for Canada by Sitting Down to Watch a Great Canadian Film!”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “Anything for Fame”: A Delve into the Insatiable Desire for Rome is Burning Social Media Fame
Pardon my “Rocky Horror Picture Show” Dr. Everett Scott attitude here but the Canadian documentary “Anything for Fame” is a deep dive into the elusive chase for fame on social media channels we can label “internet fame”. Jamie Cohen holder of a PHD in Digital Culture notes the odds of being a super famous internetContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “Anything for Fame”: A Delve into the Insatiable Desire for Rome is Burning Social Media Fame”
Toronto Hot Docs 2025: “We Live Here”: Nuclear Cruelty: Criminal Negligence or is it State Manslaughter?
The Kazakhstani documentary “We Live Here” unravels a story of criminal negligence or is it state manslaughter? Between 1949-1991 over 456 nuclear tests were conducted by the USSR in a test site area on the Kazakhstani steppes covering an area of 18,300 square kilometers, roughly the size of Israel. Open air testing ceased in 1963Continue reading “Toronto Hot Docs 2025: “We Live Here”: Nuclear Cruelty: Criminal Negligence or is it State Manslaughter?”
Toronto 2025 HOT DOCS: “Ultras”: Familial Football Fanaticism of Stadium Schizophrenics
“Ultras” explores rather fittingly the culture of Ultras in 8 countries and 4 continents including England, Sweden, Italy, Morocco, Indonesia, Egypt, Mexico and Argentina. Ultras are those noisy, swaying, boisterous and vociferous masses at football games. Are they suffering from Stadium Schizophrenia? Masses of the life weary, battered by ordinary cares and problems untilContinue reading “Toronto 2025 HOT DOCS: “Ultras”: Familial Football Fanaticism of Stadium Schizophrenics “
RKS 2025 Film: “Greek Mother’s Never Die”: Authenticity and Stereotypes
Rachel Suissa, writer and director of “Greek Mother’s Never Die”, says the film is a personal journey based on her Greek mother and the happenings in her own life. It started as a one woman show, then a television show and now a movie. Twenty-five-year-old Ella (Abby Miner) was born in Greece to an AmericanContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Greek Mother’s Never Die”: Authenticity and Stereotypes”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “The Spoils”: Morality Butts Heads with Legality and Political Games
Morality dictates the conclusion to be drawn from the “looting” of art by the Nazis in World War II is such art should be returned to the heirs of the owners the Nazis “stole” it from. Legality may dictate otherwise due to the civil law doctrine in Germany (and in common law jurisdictions) a purchaserContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “The Spoils”: Morality Butts Heads with Legality and Political Games”
Crazy8s: “The Reveal”: Sweet, Tender and Compassionate Sewn Nicely Together with a Chuckle: A Comedic Fairy Tale?
“The Reveal” if I may remark in a cheesy way using a word my Grade One teacher drilled in our young noggins never to write in a sentence is nice. It is also sweet, tender, compassionate and at times humorous. It operates in a dual universe of two different reveals. The reveal is an eventContinue reading “Crazy8s: “The Reveal”: Sweet, Tender and Compassionate Sewn Nicely Together with a Chuckle: A Comedic Fairy Tale?”
RKS 2025 Film: “Misericordia”: Anger, Violence, Guilt and Lustcentric Blind Eyes
Jérémie Pastor (Félix Kysyl), an unemployed baker from Toulouse, returns to his native country village to attend the funeral of his former boss and town baker J.P. Rigal. A one-night stay at widower Martine Rigal’s (Catherine Frot) extends itself to no set date. Vincent Rigal (Jean-Baptiste Durand) expresses hostility then violence towards Pastor thinking heContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Misericordia”: Anger, Violence, Guilt and Lustcentric Blind Eyes”
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